X5 Beta testers, a question

[pip]

Can any of you beta tester tell me if X5 solid layout works properly, also if viewsheets works properly again.

We are reviewing our maintenence contract, and these 2 points are the main reason we are still on X2.

Please email me if you can not write the answer here.

[Fred @ Slate Industries]

PIP

 

 

Solid layout and Viewsheets has been rock solid since X4MR2.

I have a File called Core / Cav that I made all my views into Viewsheet(s) with names.

Cav P/L,Cav Front,Cav bottom...Core P/L, Core yada,yada,yada....I open it and Merge in or vice versa my next Job and just go through each viewsheet and matching its origin with the WCS panel.

Viewsheets is like SW / multiple Config.

 

X5 will have the ability to Change the color of Solid Faces so your not picking the whole Solid and boundring your brains out all the time for those simple surfacing paths like a radius on an edge etc.

 

X5 is a leap ahead.

[pip]

Tony

can you try something for me. A simple solids model ( just a cube ) make a solids layout and remove one of the self created views. Did that work, in ours all the lines splines and arcs are still there as individual elements. Our solids are very complicated items so we end up with thousands of elements left on the screen for every view we remove. In viewsheets, turn off a couple of layers you dont wish to see. Shut mastercam down and the reopen that file, are all the layers now turned back on..

Thanks. Just to see if it is our copy that sucks.

[Jayson Kramer]

i HAVE DONE THIS MANY OF TIME IN BOTH x4 MU3 AND x5 AND WORKS AS IT SHOULD ON MORE THEN ONE COMPUTER.

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

Pip I may have 60000 entities in my solid layouts and no see the problems you are talking about. I did see some things in the early Beta of X 4 years ago, but we only use solid layout for our set-ups and it has been the best for us that it has ever been.

[MotorCityMinion]

"Deja Moo: The feeling that you've heard this bull before."

 

Simple solution: There is a home learning edition (HLE) of X4 that SHOULD be able to let you test what you need to see.

 

Get an evaluation copy of X5 when it comes out and try it. Your reseller should not have a problem with that.

[gcode]

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so we end up with thousands of elements left on the screen for every view we remove.

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edge curves on the solid getting left behind????

[Dan@home]

Try putting the solid on a view by itself (without the curves, lines ext). Then do the solids layout with just the solid view activated.

 

Then update your Mastercam to the latest, the solids layout works fine here.

[pip]

Jay

no need to shout

[pip]

Jay

no need to shout

 

Did a search and found a thread with the same problems in viewsheets.

The elements are left from the view we made with solids layout. Not around the solid itself.

[pip]

Tried it on all 4 seats that we have here and the problem is on all of them, cant be the graphics card because we all have different cards.

X2 MR2 works as should on all.

[gcode]

Has you tried the

"Regenerate Display List" command after deleting

a view?

It cures a multitude of graphics isses in X4

[pip]

Unfortunetly regenerate list display doesn't have any effect.

http://www.emastercam.com/cgi-bin/ultimate...t=038148#000000

[Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.]

I can't reproduce the layout problem using the simple example you described in either X4 MU2 or in X5. Perhaps there's more to it than you're telling us - is it a combination Viewsheets/Layout issue?

 

As far as Viewsheets go, bug #81921 sounds like what you're describing in the 2nd post, and that is marked as fixed for X5.

[Thee Rickster ™]

Pip, ask someone at CNC to do a 'go to meeting'

desktop share, if your work allows it.

 

I have done it with in-House as well as CNC to

sort out certain issues that couldn't be reproduced.

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

Pete has always been willing to help us out when it comes to problems so he would be the person I would get a hold of to get this issue straightened out. We do not see this on 6 different computers running anything from XP 32 bit to Windows 7 64 bit.

 

But on another note why would the improved toolpaths not be the reason you would want to keep to up to date? Some little minor problems with minor functions in the software keep you from keeping current? I would think the newer toolpaths that give you so much improvements for running parts would be more important, but hey if you are our competition please stay with X2 we would not want you to be even with us and start getting the work we keep taking from you.

 

Not saying anything but just saying.

[BenK]

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As far as Viewsheets go, bug #81921 sounds like what you're describing in the 2nd post, and that is marked as fixed for X5.

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Thanks for the info. I'm glad to hear this is fixed.

[Jayson Kramer]

Sorry PIP I was programming and forgot to flip the switch,,,

[BenK]

bug #81921 sounds like what you're describing in the 2nd post, and that is marked as fixed for X5.

 

This is not fixed in X5. I had it happen to me today.